Join the Lucy Parsons Popular Human Rights School! Do you want to be on the frontlines of the movement for justice and human rights? You can become a certified human rights observer. The Lucy Parsons Popular Human Rights School's purpose is to train grassroots activists to understand, recognize, report, and organize to overcome human rights… Read More »online – Lucy Parsons Popular Human Rights School’s to train grassroots activists

A sober look at Israelis' and Evangelicals' spiritual-political pact, which spans the dirt-poor backwaters of America to the halls of Jerusalem power. - Nick Schager, The Daily Beast ;  Rated 100% by Rotten Tomatoes Millions of American Evangelicals are praying for the State of Israel.  Among them are a dynasty of Kentucky pastors and their… Read More »online – Invitation to Online Film Salon – ‘Til Kingdom Come

Join this online event on Sunday, February 12 at 4:00 PM for an important discussion on The Plight of Haitian Migrants: How Racism Works to Undermine an Immigration System Already in Crisis. Speakers include: A Haitian political and economic policy specialist at the Mexican consulate in Haiti. A Haitian migrant to Western MA who is… Read More »online – The Plight of Haitian Migrants

Why do governments and gangs alike target land defenders, and what can we do to fight back? Join CODEPINK campaigners Samantha Wherry and Teddy Ogborn for a discussion with land defenders organizing against the destruction of crucial natural environments. Hear from Matthew Johnson, who organizes in Atlanta to defend the Weelaunee Forest from the construction… Read More »online – Environmental Injustice: Combating Threats to Land Defenders

Please join the No Way to Treat a Child campaign for a webinar next week on February 14 at 12 p.m. Eastern / 9 a.m. Pacific / 5 p.m. GMT.  We'll hear how Palestinian children have been impacted by the reign of Israeli aggression across the occupied West Bank this year. Israeli forces have carried out incursions… Read More »webinar – No Way to Treat a Child campaign

Iraq War Protests + 20 – Lessons from past peace movements. Actions towards a peaceful future. Twenty years ago, on February 15th, 2003, activists from across the globe gathered in what many social movement researchers would come to describe as “the largest protest event in human history”. In more than 600 cities worldwide, coordinated protests… Read More »online – Iraq War Protests + 20

It’s been just over a month since the new Israeli government, led by Benjamin Netanyahu and a collection of ultra-nationalist coalition partners, was sworn in. Over this short time period, the world has been watching as the government begins advancing its hardline agenda that includes weakening the judiciary and the media, intensifying the brutal oppression… Read More »Webinar: The new Israeli far-right government — and the resistance to it

Joe Lauria (photo: Consortium News) Joe Lauria is Editor-in-Chief of Consortium News and co-host of the CNLive! podcast.  A former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and Sunday Times, he is co-author with Mike Gravel of A Political Odyssey: The Rise of American Militarism and One Man’s Fight to Stop It.  Mr. Lauria… Read More »online – Challenging the Cold War Narrative with Journalist Joe Lauria

JOIN CODEPINK, Black Alliance for Peace, Chicago Area Peace Action, Chicago Committee Against War & Racism, RootsAction, and others on Wednesday, February 15th at 7 P.M. Central for “Why and How to End the War in Ukraine” – a webinar and discussion featuring presentations by Marcy Winograd of CODEPINK, retired Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, and Jacqueline Luqman of… Read More »online – Why and How to End the War in Ukraine

Come along on Wednesday, February 15th, 2023 at 7 P.M. Central (8PM EST), for a webinar and discussion, “Why and How to End the War in Ukraine” – organized by Chicago Area Peace Action and co-sponsored by Black Alliance for Peace, Chicago Committee Against War & Racism, CODEPINK, Party for Socialism & Liberation, RootsAction, World BEYOND War,… Read More »online – Why and How to End the War in Ukraine

Wednesday, February 15th at 6:00-7:30 Meets the Third Wednesday of each month from 6-7:30 pm in person on the patio at Oak Park Brewery.  Next meeting is February 15th.

Every Thursday Stop Wars – Weekly vigil – At the corner of 16th & J Sts. Sacramento.  @ 4 pm – 5 pm.   FMI: 916-448-7157, sacpeace@dcn.org.

Sun February 19 @ 12:30 pm - 5:00 pm EST Join us at the Lincoln Memorial at 12:30 pm on Sunday, February 19th, on the anniversary of the Ukraine War and President’s Day Weekend, to Rage Against the War Machine! Veterans, speakers, rock musicians, comedians, and more. After the rally, we’ll march to the White… Read More »Rage Against the War Machine – in D.C.

 The War in Ukraine – 1 year on ​                                                                               Click here to Register   Scott Ritter, former UN… Read More »online – The War in Ukraine – 1 year on

On Tuesday, February 21, join CODEPINK Congress and special guests to discuss what has transpired in the one year since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. One year after Russia invaded Ukraine, the US and NATO continue to escalate the war with sophisticated weapons and military training of Ukrainian troops on US soil. While President Biden bemoans the… Read More »online – Ukraine, One Year Later…

Join the Peace Collective in conversation about How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Register for this event to receive the zoom link:  https://www.codepink.org/bc_feb23

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkde-upjMsHdU0FUgaodr8Ym67DlG9nu0s Decisions about the defense industry are not just made at the national level (i.e., what happens in Congress, the White House and the Pentagon) but also at the local level. State and local governments hand out taxpayer money in subsidies (in official jargon, usually called “economic development incentives”) to military contractors that… Read More »Watchdog Workshop: Tracing the state and local subsidies behind your hometown military contractors

We will address the role of NATO and NATO's responsibility in this war. No war falls from heaven, they have always a prehistory including provocations by NATO and the Ukrainian governments and elites. Organized by the No to NATO network. A contribution to the action weekend against the Ukrainian war. Register in advance: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpdu2srjkpH9Ltevuz00q-H3UDd3or7QX8 The… Read More »online – The role of NATO in the Ukrainian war

SAVE THE DATES and GET READY TO UNMUTE YOURSELF! Unmute Yourself is back and we’ll be bringing you the latest from smart, innovative and committed colleagues and partners—speakers to be announced soon! Unmute Yourself: UKRAINE PART II Thursday, February 23, 2023 10am PT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET Because of Russia’s devastating war in… Read More »online – Unmute Yourself: UKRAINE PART II

Bill Fletcher Jr. Principal at Common Forces, LLC, former president of TransAfrica Forum, longtime trade unionist and writer The James Baldwin Lecture is co-presented by the UMass Amherst W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, the Department of History, and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts From joining with First Nations peoples to contest… Read More »online – None of Us Is Free Unless All Are Free: Anti-Imperialism and the Black Radical Tradition

Every Thursday Stop Wars – Weekly vigil – At the corner of 16th & J Sts. Sacramento.  @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm 16th & J Sts. Sacramento. FMI: 916-448-7157, sacpeace@dcn.org.

Every Thursday Stop Wars – Weekly vigil – At the corner of 16th & J Sts. Sacramento.  @ 4 pm – 5 pm.   FMI: 916-448-7157, sacpeace@dcn.org.

Webinar Registration   https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Aw1N_pRlTOaZxzaa0ZGHAA Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Microsoft (Outlook) Topic Colonial Canada and the Caribbean: Past and present Description To mark Black History month we are hosting a webinar discussion on Canada's colonial role in the Caribbean, past and present, from Canadian trade relations with the slave plantation economy to gunboat diplomacy and Canadian banking… Read More »online – Colonial Canada and the Caribbean: Past and present

One year after the beginning of the Ukraine war – the International Peace Bureau in cooperation with the Peace in Ukraine Coalition (USA), Movement de la Paix (France), CND (UK) and Transform! Europe will hold an international webinar to bring together different voices from different countries to discuss a lasting peace in Ukraine and our way towards it. Introductory words… Read More »online – 365 Days of War in Ukraine: Prospects Towards Peace in 2023

Join CODEPINK and the VFP Nuclear Abolition Working Group for a special presentation and discussion with the new Coordinator of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (OREPA), Tanvi Kardile.  OREPA has been the watchdog and tip of the sword in the resistance to our nuclear weapons program in Oak Ridge Tennessee. For a quarter of… Read More »Nuclear Abolition Webinar with Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (OREPA)

Join CODEPINK, Humanity Rising and Ubiquity University for a Peace in Ukraine Educational series. Monday: Big Picture with Vladimir Posner and Katrina Vanden Huevel Tuesday: Nuclear Threat with Daniel Ellsberg Wednesday: Costs of War with Kambale (friends of the Congo), Wei Yu (China Is Not Our Enemy Campaign Coordinator), Teddy Ogborn (War is Not Green Campaign… Read More »online – Peace in Ukraine: Pathway to Peace Series

Join the Peace Collective for our coffee hour! This is for organizing, bonding, and discussing current events for our CODEPINK youth. Register for this event to receive the zoom link:  https://www.codepink.org/ch_feb23

Join the CODEPINK team and local CODEPINK chapters for the third monthly community meeting on Monday, February 27th at 3pm PT/6pm ET! We'll discuss current campaigns, upcoming actions, and possibilities for local collaboration. The national CODEPINK team will also share some tools and resources for local chapters to use. RSVP for the Zoom link, and email… Read More »online – February CODEPINK Community Call

  Fire and Rain is a compelling, meticulous narrative of the way national security decisions formed at the highest levels of government affect the lives of individuals at home and abroad. By drawing these connections, Carolyn Woods Eisenberg brings to life policy decisions about Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, conveying their significance to a new generation of… Read More »online – Impact of the Antiwar Movement on Vietnam War Policy

Military recruiting of high school students has been a tactic of the United States military services and a concern for many parents, grandparents, and families for decades. Recently, meeting recruitment goals has become more difficult for military recruiters, so much so that there are alarming reports of students in high schools across the country being… Read More »online – Opposing the Militarization of Youth

Every Thursday Stop Wars – Weekly vigil – At the corner of 16th & J Sts. Sacramento.  @ 4 pm – 5 pm.   FMI: 916-448-7157, sacpeace@dcn.org.

Our speaker, Michael Klare, will discuss the sources of US-China tensions, the dangers of the current approach the US government is taking, and how grassroots peace groups can address this issue. Michael Klare is professor emeritus of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College, a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Arms Control Association in… Read More »online – The Coming War with China

Ongoing Wellstone Meetings           First Thursday - March 2nd at 7:00 pm                             General Membership Meeting  Please check your email for the Zoom link after signing up at:              https://wellstonedems.club/ Zach Freels will be speaking on the importance of union representation in… Read More »Wellstone Monthly General Meeting

The Roadmap To Unification of The Korean Peninsula: One Nation, Two States, Three Governments The Korean Peninsula remains the only divided nation in the world, the only region still separated by the cold war. Despite living in different systems for seven decades, Koreans are still one nation, sharing the same language and cultural heritage. Reunification… Read More »online – The Roadmap To Unification of The Korean Peninsula

Liz Oliva Fernández Producer and Journalist, Belly of the Beast Alejandra Laprea Documentary Filmmaker and Co-founder of the Feminist Spider Network of Collectives in Venezuela Diana Sierra Becerra – Moderator – Popular Educator and Historian, UMass Amherst This panel of Latin American feminists will discuss the relationship between patriarchy and U.S. imperialism, specifically the fatal… Read More »online – Feminists Against Empire: Resistance to U.S. Sanctions and Embargoes

On Tuesday, March 7, join CODEPINK Congress and Massachusetts Peace Action for the next Capitol Calling Party to discuss Europe’s momentous anti-war movement. From reading the corporate media, you’d never know that thousands of Germans, Italians, Britons, French and other European anti-war activists  are marching in the street to tell their government to stop sending weapons… Read More »online – Europe’s Anti-War Movement

Allyship & the Fight for Palestinian Liberation Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 | 11:30am ET/6:30pm Palestine This is the final episode in a four-part series, "Learning and Unlearning Palestine," produced by Al-Shabaka in partnership with the Foundation for Middle East Peace. In this webinar, Saleh Hijazi and Nadya Tannous join moderator Tariq Kenney-Shawa to explore what allyship and solidarity with the Palestinian liberation… Read More »online – Allyship & the Fight for Palestinian Liberation

register at:  https://www.codepink.org/iwd23webinars Join CODEPINK on International Women’s Day 2023 as we come together to discuss the core values and missions of a feminist foreign policy, what we as feminists need to do in the ongoing rise of violence, hatred and environmental crisis and how we can engage locally and globally to stand in solidarity… Read More »IWD 2023: Feminist Voices for Peace Webinars

On International Women's Day, join a panel of leading thinkers and activists on the need for a real feminist foreign policy and what that could look like. SPEAKERS: Claudia de la Cruz, CODEPINK Ray Acheson, Women's International League of Peace & Freedom (WILPF) Tamara Lorincz, CFPI, Vow & poetry from El Jones BIOS Ray Acheson… Read More »online – Toward a Real Feminist Foreign Policy

CA PPC: International Women’s Day. End Women’s Poverty: Invest in Caring Not Killing! Join CA Poor People's Campaign nationwide event for International Women’s Day. End Women’s Poverty: Invest in Caring Not Killing! March 8, 2023 12:30-2:30 Pacific time. RSVP here- https://bit.ly/CAPPCM8 Confirmed speakers: Rev. Liz Theoharis, Shailly Gupta Barnes, and Rep.Gwen Moore (D-WI). The program will… Read More »online – CA PPC: International Women’s Day. End Women’s Poverty: Invest in Caring Not Killing!

This International Women’s Day, Ploughshares Fund’s Equity Rises turns our full attention towards women who are challenging the prevailing view that threats, force, and war are necessary to resolve global conflicts. We’ll feature women who are broadening our understanding of what is possible by placing people—not weapons—at the center of our security and foreign policy.… Read More »online – Unmute Yourself: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

The Covid pandemic highlighted just how dysfunctional and inequitable the United States health care system is. Health care spending, both per person and as a share of the national budget, continues to be far higher in the United States than in other high-income countries, and yet we have higher maternity and infant death rates than… Read More »online – Seeking Women’s Health Justice

Every Thursday Stop Wars – Weekly vigil – At the corner of 16th & J Sts. Sacramento.  @ 4 pm – 5 pm.   FMI: 916-448-7157, sacpeace@dcn.org.

The JFK Peace Speech Committee will host its monthly showing and discussion of President Kennedy’s critically important address on world peace. This month the discussion will focus on how we might apply the principles of world peace that President Kennedy articulated. Those who are familiar with the speech and only want to participate in the… Read More »online – Applying President Kennedy’s American University Speech

Vincent Intondi’s new book examines how the June 12, 1982, rally for nuclear disarmament paved the way for a new generation of activists. On June 12, 1982, one million people filled the streets of New York City and rallied in Central Park to show support for the United Nations’ Second Special Session on Disarmament. They… Read More »online – Saving the World from Nuclear War

Special Wellstone Meeting! Barbara Lee comes to Sacramento!     Please RSVP so that we can know how many people are coming. When you RSVP at the link below, you will get information and location of event.   https://forms.gle/oeuGndZmH5FmepUJ8   Agenda

White House Call In Campaign: Remove Cuba from State Sponsors of Terrorism List Wed March 15 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm EDT Wednesday, March 15th 11:00am to 3:00pm We invite you to join us in National Call In Days to the White House to remove Cuba from the List of State Sponsors of Terrorism… Read More »White House Call In Campaign: Remove Cuba from State Sponsors of Terrorism List

To view this email in your browser and get a url to share it: CLICK HERE APARTHEID-FREE COMMUNITIES: Exposing and Resisting Israeli Apartheid, Occupation, and Settler Colonialism Wednesday, 15 March 2023 9am PT, 10am MT, 11am CT, 12pm ET (US, Canada) / 4pm UTC / 6pm Palestine Register here: palestine.events/15March2023 The international human rights community agrees: Israel’s… Read More »online – APARTHEID-FREE COMMUNITIES: Exposing and Resisting Israeli Apartheid, Occupation, and Settler Colonialism 

Join us for an upcoming NLG screening of Boycott Dear , We are delighted to invite you to a special screening of Just Vision’s new documentary, Boycott, on March 15th at 4-6pm PST/ 7-9PM EST. Following the screening, we look forward to hosting a Q&A with the film’s Director Julia Bacha and movement attorneys Meera Shah… Read More »online – Defending Dissent: Virtual Screening and Discussion of Boycott